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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

About My Blog

Hello blog followers,

I think it is important to cover how my blog gets published.

First I have many more good ideas and intensions than I have time to write about, since I move around do much.

I put my ideas into a new blog as a topic heading so I don't forget the idea. I then work on my selected blogs in the evening sitting in my car after dark by sizing and merging pictures in a logical order.

Each blog averages 2 hours to create and review a couple times before publishing. I use the app Blogger on my phone as this is where my photos are. This app is not robust for spell checking.

As you can see I have had more than one blog posting per day. This is because I want to write about so much. If I wait on an idea I may not remember it all and my mind is yet on another idea.

This pace of gathering pictures and a story line and punishing with out an editor gives me quick posts but also means that I may miss spell words or miss phrase my words.

I often find myself waking up semireclined in my Prius bed with a blog posting yet incompletely. I wake up and finish it, but I would guess with greater chance of errors.

So, for those of you that cringe over my mistakes after 3 years I live with them so I can bring you more about my travels.

About Me

I retired from as
Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director for the Town of Westminster in
2014.Growing up I became an on-call
firefighter and continued in the Fire Department while I kept a full-time
career in high tech, eventually becoming the full-time Fire Chief in 1998, with
the downturn in the tech sector.

I have been
fortunate to have had many wonderful experiences working in the private sector
before my full-time employment before becoming Fire Chief/EMD. This
included being an Electronic Technician, and Manufacturing engineer for Bowmar/ALI,
Inc. Leominster/Acton MA, National Service Manager for Bruel and Kjaer
Instruments, Inc., Marlborough, MA, and Engineering Coordinator,
Manufacturing Project Manager, Group Manager, and Program Manager for Digital
Equipment Corporation/Compaq Computer Corporation, various locations in MA&
NH.

I continue to
teach Fire Science Degree Programs at Mount Wachusett Community College,
Gardner, MA, where I have been an Adjunct Professor since 2000.

I have received
degrees at the following institutions:

Lesley College; Masters of
Science in Management, January 1984

Fitchburg State College; Bachelor of Science in History, June 1979

Mount
Wachusett Community College; Associate in Electronic Engineering, June 1977.